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The Clash: A Clash Of Interests

Profile and Interview by Miles, Time Out, 15 December 1978

Will success spoil Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and Joe Strummer? Miles chronicles the decline of a movement and the rise of a rock ...

Clash, The, Tapper Zukie: London/The Clash

Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, New York Rocker, December 1976

"WE'RE ONE up the arse for the rich, established groups... There's so many useless bands around it's not even worth naming any." ...

Clash, The: The Clash: Revolutionary Rock

Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Downbeat, December 1982

IT'S AN ugly voice. Gruff, guttural, uncouth, barbaric at times. Joe Strummer can't sing, not like an Al Jarreau or a Joni Mitchell, anyway. Lyrics ...

Tom Waits, Neil Young: Jim Jarmusch: "Tom Waits said he would glue my head to the wall"

Profile and Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 9 June 2006

WHEN JIM JARMUSCH speaks, it is like a man emptying out his pockets. "Wild Zero. Guitar Wolf. Where they're killing zombies. Rude Boy. The Clash. ...

Black Crowes, The: Good Olde Boys: The Black Crowes didn't do it

Profile and Interview by Mark Kemp, LA Weekly, 19 November 1992

The point is that, like Richard Hell says, rock'n'roll is an arena in which you re-create yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just ...

Specials, The: The Specials Are Ska High

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 3 February 1980

MADNESS PROVIDED the L.A. rock audience with its first tantalizing taste of the ska sound that has taken off in England in the past six ...

Rancid: Blast of the Mohicans

Profile and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 8 June 1996

Punk's not dead, kids! Not real stinking-mohawk-gobbing punk rock anyway, because that's alive and spitting with RANCID, America's coolest (and richest) revolutionaries. So stuff yer ...

Suicide

Profile and Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, August 1978

IT IS TO BE hoped that some of you lemmings may have taken a little time out from adoration of the Clash on their current ...

Shivaree

Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2000

BRILLIANTLY ECLECTIC musical mix from new US trio. ...

Funkapolitan: Your Flavour Of The Month

Profile and Interview by Deanne Pearson, Smash Hits, 20 August 1981

Deanne Pearson learns to Dance, Scream & Scoobydoo ...

Carbon/Silicon: Rock of ages

Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2007

NOW IN THEIR FIFTIES, Mick Jones and Tony James have joined forces and formed the band Carbon/Silicon. Chris Salewicz meets the punk-rock legends. ...

Demob: Demob Rules

Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 20 February 1982

'Five years on and you've still got nothing' ...

Stiff Little Fingers

Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 7 October 1978

IF MY FIRST sight of Jake Burns had been while keeping myself occupied on a bus by speculating on the lives of the other passengers, ...

Tymon Dogg: Fiddling Around

Profile and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, September 1980

Tymon Dogg has nothing against success, but he wants it on his own terms, he tells COLIN IRWIN ...

Me'Shell Ndegeocello: Meshell Ndegeocello

Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, June 2010

Meshell Ndegeocello talks to John Lewis about the Rolling Stones, the Devil and Christopher Hitchens. ...

Vintage Trouble

Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, August 2011

"THEY shake until they break bones, whack their bodies around," hollers slick-suit, sweat-soaked soul-rock frontman Ty Taylor, talking up the effect Vintage Trouble have on ...

The Jam Is Packed Off To America

Profile and Interview by Simon Frith, Creem, April 1980

THEY STARTED talking about clothes even before I left. They were discussing shirt makers. "Jermyn Street," was the consensus. "They will make silk up for ...

GBH, Discharge: 'They made Sex Pistols sound like Take That': the fury of Midlands punk

Profile and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 21 April 2020

Discharge, GBH and other scrappy bands rose up out of a scene where gigs were like wars. Clay Records' leading lights recall how technique came ...

Husker Du, The Replacements: Husker Du and The Replacements: Euphoric… Urgent... Raucous... Drunk

Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, August 1987

MINNEAPOLIS: it must be something they put in the water. ...

Chalkie Davies: "This Job Isn't A Job As Much As It's A Job, A Hobby And A Social Life Rolled Into One"

Profile and Interview by Robin Katz, Girl About Town, 17 April 1978

THE PROBLEM with rock and roll music, and the culture that surrounds it, is that few people take it very seriously. Maybe that's because rock ...